Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
The film based on the selection of stories about the experience of journeys, shared by its participants (minor age unaccompanied refugees) during the 3 months of fieldwork in 2013 in Cologne, Germany. What they have gone through and been faced wit…
Djeneba is a mother of nine children living in Kadioloko, southern Mali. Since her husband left the family some years ago Djeneba and her children manage the family’s millet fields without him. Recently the eldest boy, Madou, has brought his new wife, …
Journal of Anthropological Films
The Depth Beneath, The Height Above consists in an exploration of the high alpine region of Robiei, southern Switzerland. Conceived as a sensory piece, the film particularly focuses on the existing relationships between the humans, animals, infrastruct…
The film situates the viewer within a makeshift space of an animal market in Algeria. Drifting between feeding and waiting, one attunes to the bodies of goats and camels, the oldest companions of Arab men. As we move deeper into the desert, the site tu…
The Hanoi New Music Festival 2018 was an historic event. It was the largest festival of exploratory forms of new music that has ever been held in Vietnam, and artists from countries across Southeast Asia and Japan came to Hanoi to participate. The film…
Dating back to 3000 years ago, Launeddas are a wind instrument from the Nuragic civilisation (Sardinia, 18th century BC/2nd century AD) bearing the marks of contaminations from all over the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. Nearly vanished between the 1960…
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Call for papers for the International Journal Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A).
Special Issue to be published in December 2022
Hierarchies of knowledge production and power relations in academic postcolonial se…
Appel à articles pour un numéro varia
Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A) lance un appel à articles pour son numéro varia 2-2021 (décembre).
Outre les critères classiques de l’évaluation de la qualité scientifiqu…
Call for Papers – Varia issue december 2021
Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A) is launching a call for papers for its varia issue 2-2021 (December).
In addition to the classic criteria for evaluating the scientif…
Appel à contributions bilingues françaises/anglaises pour la revue Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques (RS&A)
Hiérarchies des savoirs et rapports de pouvoir dans l’académie en contextes postcoloniaux
Hierarchies of knowl…
This paper examines Akan indigenous concepts for “stress”, “distress”, “sorrow”, and “depression” through the interaction between language, culture, mind and the body. It applies the theory of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson 1980), with an emp…
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Reviewed by Malaika Sutter, University of Bern James Voorhies, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form Since 1968. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2017. 288 pages. In James Voorhies’ first monograph, Beyond Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critic…
Book Review
Alan Warde. 2016, The practice of eating. Cambridge : Polity. 220 p.
Alan Warde’s aim in writing this book is to show how the academic discourse on food and its links to consumption, health and sustainable development has been “colonized” …
Alan Warde. 2016, The practice of eating. Cambridge : Polity. 220 p.
Alan Warde’s aim in writing this book is to show how the academic discourse on food and its links to consumption, health and sustainable development has been “colonized” …
Editores do dossiê: Stephen Grant Baines (UnB) e Bruce Granville Miller, University of British Columbia (UBC) Este dossiê é o resultado do painel, “Indigenous Peoples, tribunals, prisons, and legal and public processes”, coordenado por Stephen G. Baines e Bruce G. Miller, realizado em 23 de novembro de 2019 na Conferência Internacional da CASCA/AAA em […]
I. Introduction
La distinction est un objet classique en sciences sociales depuis au moins Hebert Spencer et nous disposons en la matière de nombreuses traditions analytiques toutes dignes d’attention. Mais lorsque le sujet se voit évoqué,…
Bernard Francq est décédé le 10 février 2020, à l’âge de 74 ans, à Guingamp, en Bretagne, là où il vivait depuis quelques années avec son épouse, sa fille et sa petite-fille. Il était aussi le père d’un garçon, qui habite en Belgique.
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L’analyse comparative des modalités et des logiques de distinction sociale dans un large éventail de contextes conduit à pointer les limites des grandes théorisations à prétention universelle. Cet article souligne tout d’abord le caractère réduc…
Despite the rise of the “moral economy” as a frame for analyzing increasing inequality, few scholars have explored the moral dimensions of elites’ experience and interpretations of their own privilege. Based on in-depth interviews with 50 afflue…
L’article s’attache à montrer la différence sociologique et théorique entre la distinction et la différenciation, entre un modèle de la distinction sociale et un modèle de la différenciation sociale. Pour cela, il examine la conceptualisation qu…
Cet article s’interroge sur la pertinence d’une approche en termes de “culture légitime” dans le cas japonais, qui serait au fondement de la distinction sociale. Il part de la théorisation de Pierre Bourdieu entendant rompre avec le relativisme …